A recent survey led by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) found that Indian diets were dominated by low-quality carbohydrates, chiefly white rice, milled grains and added sugars, and replacing even just 5% of them with plant, dairy, egg or fish protein can retard the rising incidence of cardiometabolic diseases in India. Incidentally, the national ICMR-India Diabetes (INDIAB) study noted that the consumption of eggs, of all the animal proteins, was relatively low across the country – even in the northeast Indian states of Meghalaya , Mizoram and Nagaland, which were found to have the highest intake of animal proteins but tended to prefer fish, poultry and red meat.

The study, ‘Dietary Profiles and Associated Metabolic Risk Factors in India’, specifically says that these sou

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